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by St-Clock 15y ago
This might not be fair in dialectic, but I assure you that attacking the ethos of an opponent in rhetoric is fair game. It can be tricky if you only focus on that though because it does not make the audience believe more in your point... Bu
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Sure, but in Montreal :-) Google seems to be busy in many challenging areas, and after a Ph.D. in C.S., technical challenges look like a rare commodity in Montreal.
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IPython 0.11 RC - First major release in two years(ipython.org)
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by St-Clock 15y ago
One thing I may have missed from the documentation: is it possible to check post-conditions (side effects of the function and return value)?
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Thanks to you and astine, I just learned today about per-user salts. I thought that you only needed a site-wide salt and after reading on the topic, I now understand why it's better to have a per-user salt stored in the db. I was also confu
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Quick question, if you have the db but not the salt, does the speed of the hashing algorithm still matter?
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by St-Clock 15y ago
"Overall, the experience was positive and I would seriously consider using Go for writing server side of web applications as it provides a right balance between speed and memory efficiency of the running code (much closer to C than to e.g.
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by St-Clock 15y ago
"This assumes the end user is familiar with command line usage. The typical consumer of VPSes aren't"? What? I thought it was the opposite, i.e., that typical VPS customers were familiar with a command line or had to get familiar pretty qui
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Yes, SourceForge sat on their "monopoly" and did not innovate. Yes, they got complacent. But they were so ahead of their time! If I remember correctly, SourceForge even used to offer a compiler farm so you could try to compile your library/
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by St-Clock 15y ago
"Another mistake that many libraries make is that they make a generic 'FooLibraryException' and subclass all their exceptions from there, instead of from where it makes sense (IoError, KeyError, MemoryError ...)" Actually, this isn't black
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Errr... With a typical RDBMS, doing a full table scan depends on the current stats (e.g., number of rows, are the stats current, state of the index, possibility to use an index, presence of cached data, previous query performance etc.). It
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by St-Clock 15y ago
The first part of your post made sense until you said "The right way to look at it, imo, is to see RDBMS as specialized systems". RDBMS have a lot more features and support many more usage scenarios out of the box than any NoSQL systems and
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by St-Clock 15y ago
Sure, but the relatively short link to your reply, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2492783 , is already 44 characters, so I'm only left with 96 characters on a twitter message. With bit.ly, the link is much shorter with 21 characters,
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by St-Clock 15y ago
The idea of using a table to represent a function implementation was proposed by Parnas, but in the context of software documentation. This is quite nice if you can choose which function to represent with a table (as opposed to having to re
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by St-Clock 15y ago
I don't know because I thought your comment was insightful. But since this is one of the worst threads I have read since I joined HN, in terms of FUD and signal-to-noise ratio, it is not impossible that someone who misunderstood the situati
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by St-Clock 15y ago
I believe github is doing exactly this "Powered by the Dedicated Servers and Cloud Computing of Rackspace Hosting®"
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by St-Clock 16y ago
You might also be interested in gitli (excellent for single-developer projects, good-enough for small teams): https://github.com/bartdag/gitli
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Try various commands on their cli for some interesting feedback (e.g., vim, emacs, rm -rf). Btw, someone downvoted a previous poster who said exactly that. The post was deleted though :-(
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by St-Clock 16y ago
At its core, Spring provides some niceties such as dependency injection, resource location, validation, and data binding, all for POJOs: you can use these features in a regular app or in a web app. For other features such as persistence, yo
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by St-Clock 16y ago
I just bought the ebook version and it appears as is on the preface. Not that I bought the book for the preface...
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by St-Clock 16y ago
"4) The GAE design patterns in python are ugly. I find our current Sinatra-based implementation cleaner and easier to understand. Python + django is verbose, its templating system is obtuse, and its testing framework is, well, I don't know
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by St-Clock 16y ago
That was exactly my thought. No NoSQL. And they use transactions for write queries. They use apache (not even nginx!). Only 25% of their servers are pure (no snapshot) caching servers (not 50% or 75%). They prefer vertical partitioning over
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Next (desired) feature in the pipeline: online vim on top of github. And no, I don't think Bespin/Skywriter/Ace is good enough right now.
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by St-Clock 16y ago
"And that startup time of JVM is orders of magnitude worse than pretty much anything else." Sure, let's throw out of the window all the optimizations the VM can do at runtime because it takes a whole second to start the VM. And you need to
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by St-Clock 16y ago
+1 for "you almost always learn tenacity". I've seen many good and bad Ph.D. students, but in the end, the ones who got their Ph.D. were the tenacious ones, not necessarily the best or brightest ones.
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Although this is a good representation of a Ph.D. contribution, I don't think this is the point of the current debate. I would be perfectly happy to have made a dent in the knowledge circle and I think it would be worth the sacrifice, fro
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by St-Clock 16y ago
One thing I try to do is to never stay logged in on any Google service like gmail or analytics (my browser remembers the password). I'm sure they could still track most of my internet traffic, but at least, their data becomes less reliable.
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by St-Clock 16y ago
1. This is a very limited subset of conferences/fields. 2. Google Research is younger than Microsoft Research. 3. Google Research is really mixed with their product development whereas Microsoft (and IBM) Research are more isolated so they
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by St-Clock 16y ago
I'm not sure who voted you up, but the second part of this comment looks trollish (apologies if it wasn't). For a starter, this is a very small subset of computer science conferences (e.g., the main software engineering and programming
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by St-Clock 16y ago
Is this still under development? The last blog post was in March 2010 and the website still says "beta".

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